SharePoint

SharePoint is a web-based collaborative platform that integrates natively with Microsoft Office. Launched in 2001, SharePoint is primarily sold as a document management and storage system, but the product is highly configurable and its usage varies substantially among organizations.

According to Microsoft,  SharePoint had 200 million users.

 History 

 Origins 
SharePoint evolved from projects codenamed "Office Server" and "Tahoe" during the Office XP development cycle.

"Office Server" evolved out of the FrontPage and Office Server Extensions and "Team Pages". It targeted simple, bottom-up collaboration.

"Tahoe", built on shared technology with Exchange and the "Digital Dashboard", targeted top-down portals, search and document management. The searching and indexing capabilities of SharePoint came from the "Tahoe" feature set. The search and indexing features were a combination of the index and crawling features from the Microsoft Site Server family of products and from the query language of Microsoft Index Server.

GAC-(Global Assembly Cache) is used to accommodate the shared assemblies that are specifically designated to be shared by applications executed on a system.

 Versions 
Successive versions (in chronological order):
 Office Server Extensions
 SharePoint Portal Server 2001
 SharePoint Team Services
 Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (free license)
 SharePoint Portal Server 2003
 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (free license)
 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007
 SharePoint Foundation 2010 (free), SharePoint Server 2010 (commercial extension for Foundation), and SharePoint Enterprise 2010 (commercial extension for Server)
 SharePoint Foundation 2013 (free), SharePoint Server 2013 (extension on top of Foundation), and SharePoint Enterprise 2013.
 SharePoint Online (Plan 1 & 2).
 SharePoint Server 2016 and SharePoint Enterprise 2016.
 SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Enterprise 2019.

 Notable changes in SharePoint 2010 
Changes in end-user functionality added in the 2010 version of SharePoint include:
 New UI with Fluent Ribbon, using wiki-pages rather than 'web-part pages' and offering multi-browser support.
 New social profiles, and early social networking features
 Central Administration rebuilt.
 Restructure of "Shared Service Providers" - Introduction of "Service Applications" SOA model.
 Sandboxed Solutions and a client-side object-model APIs for JavaScript, Silverlight, and .NET applications
 Business Connectivity Services, Claims-based Authentication, and Windows PowerShell support

 Notable changes in SharePoint 2013 
 Cross-browser drag & drop support for file uploads/changes, and Follow/Share buttons
 OneDrive for Business (initially SkyDrive Pro) replaces MySites and Workspaces.
 Updates to social network feature & new task aggregation tool.
 Database caching, called Distributed Cache ServiceHow-To Videos - Microsoft Office. Microsoft.com. Retrieved on February 22, 2014.
 Content-aware switching, called Management
 Audit center (service called eDiscovery)
 Rebuilt and improved search capabilities
 Removal of some analytics capabilities
 UI: JSLink, MDS, theme packs. No WYSIWYG in SP Designer.

 Notable changes in SharePoint 2016 
Sources:
 Hybrid Improvements
 Single Sites View
 Unified Search
 Search Sensitive Information in Hybrid Search
 Unified UI (O365)
 Performance, Scaling & Deployment Improvements
 Search Scaling Capabilities
 Site Collection Enhancement
 Deterministic View Threshold – Removing 5000 Limit
 Durable Links and Large Files Support
 Deployment Improvements
 MinRole
 Zero Downtime Patching

 Notable changes in SharePoint 2019 
Sources:
 Modern sites and page layouts
 Communication sites
 Large File Support, Character Restrictions, and File/Folder Names

 Notable changes in SharePoint Subscription Edition (SE) 
Sources:
 Authentication and Identity Management
 Support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) 1.0
 Enhanced People Picker for modern authentication
 Improved Integrated Windows authentication over TLS
 Deployment and Upgrade
 Support for Windows Server 2022
 Support for Windows Server Core
 Support for "N - 2" upgrade from SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 (and Project Server 2016 and 2019)
 AppFabric Cache integration
 Farm Administration
 Support for host header bindings on Central Administration web application
 Support for Server Name Indication (SNI) for host header bindings
 Support for changing web application bindings
 Easier AAM configuration for Central Administration
 Federated service applications support "N - 2" consuming farms (SharePoint 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition)
 Support for client certificate authentication to SMTP servers
 Health and Monitoring (new Health Analyzer rules)
 Certificate notification contacts haven't been configured
 Upcoming SSL certificate expirations
 SSL certificates are about to expire
 SSL certificates have expired
 Hybrid
 Better integration with Power Apps and Power Automate
 Improved hybrid search troubleshooting
 Search
 Search result page modernization
 Support for returning list content in the modern results page
 Thumbnails in the modern search result page
 Security
 SSL certificate management
 Support for TLS 1.3
 Strong TLS encryption by default
 Improved ASP.NET view state security and key management
 Sites, Lists, and Libraries
 Accessibility improvements
 Brick layout for document library thumbnails and image gallery web part
 Bulk check-in and check-out
 Bulk file download from document libraries and OneDrive personal sites
 Image and document thumbnails in document libraries and picture libraries
 Modern list and library web parts support adding, editing, and deleting content
 Modern document sets
 Storage
 New BLOB storage provider: Remote Share Provider
 Remote Share Provider diagnostic tool

 References 

 Other websites 
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